Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shanghai gesture. In non-diplomatic language what Mr. Stimson was really saying was this: Japan has violated the Nine-Power Treaty; if that pact is scrapped, the U. S. would be justified in scrapping the capital ship treaty, fortifying Guam and the Philippines and putting an invincible fleet of battleships into the Pacific. How would Japan like that? Repeated in the Stimson letter was the announcement by the U. S. Government last January that it would recognize no treaty-violating spoils which Japan might wring from China as the result of current fighting. Now, however. Secretary Stimson invited other governments...
...Received from the Naval Affairs Committee a bill from Maine's Hale to build the U. S. fleet up to maximum, treaty strength...
Last week the U. S. Navy steamed back into the news on Capitol Hill. The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs unanimously approved legislation to build the fighting fleet up to full treaty strength. Japan's warlike activities in the Far East were a large psychological factor in propelling the bill out to the Senate. An anxious state of mind was reflected in Secretary Stimson's hint that Japanese hostilities in China might justify a general abrogation of the Washington and London treaties limiting Naval Armament...
With an act of diplomacy all too typical of its previous vacillations, the American government has given orders for the entire Atlantic fleet to sail for the Pacific and join the American vessels already there. The entire American navy will stortly be conducting operations within a short distance of the Sino-Japanese imbroglio. Such a situation is almost bound to be interpreted as a practical sequel to the policy outlined in Secretary Stimson's note of Feb. 24 to Senator Horah...
...place of the big Loenings, costly to operate, Varney Air Ferries started with a fleet of new five-passenger Sikorsky S-39's. Like any craft on such a route, they must submit to the severest treatment: rapid-fire succession of take-offs & landings, continued splashings of salt water. On the eastbay the new line operates from San Francisco Bay. Airdrome at the edge of Alameda. On the San Francisco side it inherits the circular wooden "landing button" at a pier just north of the clock-towered Ferry Building. The Varney schedule calls for 13 round trips daily. Fare...